RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Couch, Some particulars of the natural history of fishes found in Cornwall. CUL-DAR205.5.70. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
Jonathan Couch. 1825. Some particulars of the natural history of fishes found in Cornwall. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 14: 69-92.
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Linn. Trans. Vol XIV. Couch on fishes of Cornwall
p. 84. The skipper Esox saurus — they go skimming over the surface leaping 30 or 40 feet, plunging in & rising again. "but it seems surprising that a fish so scantily provided with fins shd be able to make such extraordinary leaps," for the pectorals are very small.—
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